"No, not yet, Mun Bun," answered Rose with a laugh. "But it soon will
be--in a few days."

"I'm going to finish my cannon," said Russ.

"Come on!" called Laddie to his twin sister Vi. "Let's go down and dig a
hole in the sand pile."

"What for?" she asked. Violet hardly ever did anything without first
asking a question about it.

"Huh?"

"What for we dig a hole?"

"To put fire-crackers in," answered Laddie. "And when they shoot
off--'Bang!'--they'll make the sand go up in the air."

"Like a sky-rocket?" asked Vi.

"Yes, I guess maybe like a sky-rocket," answered Laddie.

So down to the sand pile he and his sister went. Mun Bun and Margy played
in the grass in the side yard, Russ whittled away at his wooden cannon,
whistling the while, and Rose, after she had done a little dusting, made a
new dress for her doll.

"'Cause I want her to look nice for Grandma Bell," said the little girl.

And thus they played at these and other things, and had a good time.